Doctors say Flight Centre should ?pull its head in? after legal threat to WA borders - The Guardian Australia

Flight Centre is claiming it will sue if the state’s domestic and international borders don’t reopen in line with the national plan, when Western Australia reaches 70 to 80% vaccination targets.

“It’s just one of the states but it represents quite a big business ... it has an impact on us, as it does on a lot of businesses.

Under premier Mark McGowan’s transition plan, the border will remain closed until at least late January, when 90% of people aged 12 and above are vaccinated. McGowan has said the threshold, which depends on a further 250,000 West Australians getting vaccinated, will save 200 lives.

Last year, the court unanimously agreed the border policy was not discriminatory and was justified by the level of risk associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We have the lowest number of public hospital and intensive care beds of any state or territory, a medical system with no reserves. We will be more easily overrun than New South Wales or Victoria, who are already tinkering on the edge of being overrun.

While the Doherty Institute’s modelling is based on vaccination targets of 16-year-olds and above, Western Australia’s reopening requires 90% of people aged 12 and over to be vaccinated before reopening.